The other day at work, I was fine tuning the deployment process for one of our internal web sites. One of the issues we had were a set of assemblies that were referenced by the web project but which needed to be excluded from deployment.

The process of excluding files is very simple, but requires some knowledge of how publishing in VS works. I’m using VS2012 with Update 2 installed, though this feature might have been added before that.

Step 1: During File Preview, determine the list of files you want to exclude

For this exercise, I’ll exclude the following files:

Step 2: Modify the .pubxml

The edit to you publish profiles is very easy: just set the ExcludeFilesFromDeployment property. In my publish profile (the .pubxml file), I added the following lines within the PropertyGroup:

Does the deployment fail, or does the app fail to run afterwards? The deployment doesn’t pre-validate the successful execution of the app, so it sounds like in this case you’re setting up an invalid set of files on the remote server, unless I’m misunderstanding the scenario.

Note that, although not explicitly stated above, you can exclude a file within a folder by using FolderName\FileName. Thus, if you wanted to exclude bin\WebApplication2.dll along with the other files indicated above, you would use “ExcludeThisFile.aspx;DoNotDeploy.aspx;bin\WebApplication2.dll”.

Now I’m wondering if this approach could be used to accomplish an odd requirement:
building an incremental package, that contains only those files that are subject to change (I would like to avoid redistribuiting external libraries files, since we cannot update libraries within minor releases of the application).

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